[talk-au] Question about lanes

[David Murn]

My thoughts are the same as Liz.

The number of lanes should be the number available for each direction.
If the road has a lanes= tag and a oneway=yes tag, then it should be the
total number for the way.

David

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:07 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote:
> This is another one of those cases where the instructions used to be
> in unclear.  For a while the Wiki said the count was number of lanes
> "in each direction".  Some did that, some did total lane count.  It
> has since been changed to the current (and I'm told former) total
> count, but there is quite likely to still be bad data around.  I'm
> guessing you've found some.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/1/22 Mark Pulley <mrpulley at lizzy.com.au>:
> > I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip
> > there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are
> > labelled "lanes=1". Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a
> > painted line in the middle (lanes=2) - I will be changing these, but I
> > wanted to check what to use if the road (residential or unclassified)
> > doesn't have centre line markings. Should we use "lanes=1" only if
> > it's narrow, or in all residential roads without lane markings? (or
> > leave the tag off completely?) What do other people do?
> >
> > Mark P.
> 
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